Louis XIV of France (Louis the Great)

Born: 5 September 1638 Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France, Died: 1 September 1715 (aged 76) Palace of Versailles, Versailles, France

He became one of the most powerful French monarchs and consolidated a system of absolute monarchical rule in France that endured until the French Revolution.